{"id":3255,"date":"2023-05-24T15:08:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T15:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/?p=3255"},"modified":"2023-05-24T15:33:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T15:33:55","slug":"nass-transmits-two-constitution-alteration-bills-to-president-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/nass-transmits-two-constitution-alteration-bills-to-president-buhari\/","title":{"rendered":"NASS Transmits Two Constitution Alteration Bills to President Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The National Assembly on May 16 directed its Clerk to transmit two Constitution Alteration bills to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent. This followed the bills receiving approval from the constitutionally required number of State Houses of Assembly. The first bill is<strong> <\/strong>Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (Fifth Alteration) Bill, No. 46, 2022, which seeks to include the Presiding Officers of the National Assembly as members of the National Security Council. The second is the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (Fifth Alteration) Bill, No. 58, 2022, to allow for independent candidates in elections. There have been calls for the establishment of independent candidacy to provide an alternative for political aspirants who choose not to run on the platform of a political party. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nbills were among 46 Constitution Alteration bills passed by the National\nAssembly in March 2022 and sent to the States for their votes. In January 2023,\n35 bills which received approval of at least 24 States, were transmitted to\nPresident Buhari, who assented to 16 of those bills in March. Additional bills\nthat have been approved at the State level since then have been transmitted to\nhim, including Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (Fifth\nAlteration) Bill, No. 47, 2023 for the establishment of State Security Council,\nConstitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (Fifth Alteration) Bill,\nNo. 20, 2022 for uniform retirement age and pension rights for judicial officers\nand now the bill for inclusion of National Assembly Presiding Officers in the\nNational Security Council and a bill to allow for independent candidacy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nend of President Buhari\u2019s tenure is less than a week away. If these bills are\nnot signed into law, then they have to be presented afresh before the 10<sup>th<\/sup>\nNational Assembly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Assembly on May 16 directed its Clerk to transmit two Constitution Alteration bills to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent. This followed the bills receiving approval from the constitutionally required number of State Houses of Assembly. The first bill is Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (Fifth Alteration) Bill, No. 46, 2022, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3260,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255\/revisions\/3260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}